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AutumnSkyline 12-15-2006 04:00 PM

Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
Ok, I have been on windows since about '95. Last month, I switched to mac and I have to say I will never go back. I have an iMac (apple.com/imac) 17" screen 1GB Memory, 160 GB Hard Drive, and loving every minute of it. For those who say mac's suck, I would have to disagree. I can say right now, I will not deny: The Mac does not do games. I also say, leave that for nintendo, sony, and Microsoft to release GAME SYSTEMS!!!!! I understand that some people want to have it all in one, but that is one of the only bad reasons people can come up with to diss the Mac.

I want you guys to compile a list of where Macs shine and PC's falter, and Vice Versa. I'll Start

Mac:
+:
-Better at creating various items such as music, podcasts, movies, pictures, websites and DVDs with iLife
-Apple thinks of the customer: What could we do to make ease of the computer for the consumer, or even the pro?
-Amazing Design
-Apple Remote
-THE DOCK!!!!
-Built in iSight on 3/5 of the machines offered
-Firewire on all models
-perfect integration with iTunes and iPod.
-Little to no viruses written for Macs
-Expose & Dashboard

-:
-The Price: I admit it can be pricey to get the piece of hardware you want sometimes. But then again, your not getting a dell that is going to fall apart after two years after getting the cheapest model you could.
-Again, cannot play most games

PC
+:
-Supports wide Range of Software and hardware
-More popular
-Cheap(o)
-Plays Games

-:
-Non Intuitive design of computers & Windows
-Insane amount of viruses
-Its not made by apple
-Intimidating Design
-Manuals upon manuals to read if your a first time user
-Can't Run Mac OS X
-Windows hasn't been updated for five years
-A pain in the arse to reinstall and remove Windows/wipe out hard drive
-Spyware and Hackers

Grandiagod 12-15-2006 04:06 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
I use a PC instead of a Mac for the same reason I use a real cell phone instead of a Fisher Price one.

lord_carbo 12-15-2006 04:07 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
Lmao you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to games.

"OLOL JUST PLAY IT ON A CONSOLE."

Oh. OK. I'll just go and play PC-exclusive games on a console right now...

Macs are good for people who don't actually plan on doing anything with their computer. Me? I actually use it for things.

Nyokou 12-15-2006 04:10 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
My dad bought a brand new eMac about a year ago, or more. And just about 6 months ago or so, the computer overheated and went.. CRASH.

Oh yeah.

Macs are so awsome.

They don't last long. =/

EDIT: Also, I've been usings Macs for like 7+ years now, and I just recently started using Windows XP like.. 3 months ago, and it's so much better. All I need now is enough money to afford my own PC.

Anticrombie0909 12-15-2006 04:10 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
Hey everyone

come check out this great and totally unbiased comparison of macs to pcs

man they are so close I just don't know which to choose

Angel Shiyue 12-15-2006 04:12 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
Hi. I'm a Mac. I'm a PC.

Mac - I support iTunes.
PC - I do, too.

Mac - Well, I look cool.
PC - Anything costing over $900 looks 'cool'.

Mac - Well...uh...
PC - Can you play games?
Mac - No.

Yeah, I use a PC. I just felt like being sarcastic.

Grandiagod 12-15-2006 04:13 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
The PC is bad because it is not made by Apple. Sounds about right to me.

lord_carbo 12-15-2006 04:16 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by AutumnSkyline (Post 1037139)
-Supports wide Range of Software and hardware
-Plays Games

You really don't know how big of a deal this really is.

Quote:

Originally Posted by AutumnSkyline (Post 1037139)
-Non Intuitive design of computers & Windows

Windowsblinds

Quote:

Originally Posted by AutumnSkyline (Post 1037139)
-Insane amount of viruses

Sorry, but I'm not stupid enough to get a virus. Even then, I can fix it within 30 minutes with my knowledge of HijackThis.

Quote:

Originally Posted by AutumnSkyline (Post 1037139)
-Its not made by apple

AND MACS AREN'T MADE BY MICROSOFT!

Quote:

Originally Posted by AutumnSkyline (Post 1037139)
-Intimidating Design

Maybe to a monkey.

Quote:

Originally Posted by AutumnSkyline (Post 1037139)
-Manuals upon manuals to read if your a first time user

Are you joking?

Quote:

Originally Posted by AutumnSkyline (Post 1037139)
-Can't Run Mac OS X

1) Dual boot
2) AND MAC OS X CANT RUN WINDOWS XP

Quote:

Originally Posted by AutumnSkyline (Post 1037139)
-Windows hasn't been updated for five years

Vista, and I just got an update for Windows not too long ago. Not important, though. I update my own computer with my own software.

Quote:

Originally Posted by AutumnSkyline (Post 1037139)
-A pain in the arse to reinstall and remove Windows/wipe out hard drive

Are you mad?

Quote:

Originally Posted by AutumnSkyline (Post 1037139)
-Spyware and Hackers

Spyware is a nuisance, and I've never had hacking problems.


Your post more or less proved that Macs were for idiots (VIRUSES AND SPYWARE AND MANUALS--OH MY!), if anything, not that Macs were superior.

Grandiagod 12-15-2006 04:22 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
Carbo wins.

LordKratosAurion 12-15-2006 04:39 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
Call me an idiot but I never really have understood why people look down on other people for not using the kind of computer they think should be used. =\

MagicCarpetRide 12-15-2006 04:41 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
I use a mac, It plays FFR, It plays stepmania, I can do all my work on it, and my parents get them for free from the university that they work at.

That's all i care about.

kikilo 12-15-2006 04:59 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
I use a Dell PC. It's okay, it only pisses me off ocasionally. I have to admit though, Macs look so much cooler. Ah anyway, I don't see myself with a Mac in the future. XD

tuanxdjboi 12-15-2006 05:26 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
the macs at my skool are are a piece of shlt

_ReVeNGe_ 12-15-2006 05:26 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by LordCarbo
Macs can't run Windows

Wrong.

Pumble 12-15-2006 05:31 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by AutumnSkyline
The Mac does not do games

There goes the attention of everyone on this forum.

ps hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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sertman 12-15-2006 05:35 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
I can do everything that I need to do on a Mac, on a PC, plus oh so much more.

My parents have Macs, I have a PC, and the Mac is such a huge pain in the ass to do stuff on it's mindboggling.

Tokzic 12-15-2006 06:03 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
I love how Mac users say "IT'S SO MUCH EASIER COMPARED TO WINDOWS."

Both are self-explanatory, you're just too blockheaded to switch gears from one to the other. I went on a Mac for the first time since I was four (back when they were black and white) and I had absolutely no problems using it. Likewise, a Mac enthusiast I know told me he had no trouble adapting to the school PCs even though he had been using Macs at his private school.

If Macs could play games, I would be entirely impartial as to which I'd get. But they don't.

tsugomaru 12-15-2006 08:17 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
Wow. The choice explanations you give us suck.

Try to have a disinterested opinion when asking such questions.

~Tsugomaru

lord_carbo 12-15-2006 08:45 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by _ReVeNGe_ (Post 1037287)
Wrong.

No ****. Check the part of my post where I mention dual booting. It was wrong for him to say PCs can't run Mac OS X, so I countered his false statement with a false converse to prove my point.

jewpinthethird 12-15-2006 08:50 PM

Re: Choose Your Poison: Mac or PC
 
I've been using a Mac since August and I am very happy with it and to date I haven't had any problems with it.

I have noticed that programs do take a bit longer too load than with my windows machine, but then again, I have to reformat my windows machine every few months just so it works properly (in fact, I am in the process of reformating my windows machine now since the USB ports just magically stopped working). Despite my bias for mac, I use both operating systems.


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